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Today. the 90-minute debates in washington. a lot of people surprised he threw his hat back in the ring. will he hold on to his job? most of the experts say he won t. the republicans did great, not only in the general election back on november 2, but take a look at all of the special elections around massachusetts, the elections in new jersey, chris christie, all of the elections in virginia, all of those special elections, the republicans did great. they did great, obviously, in the in the midterm elections. and he s not going to be the chairman of the rnc. the chairman of the dnc, which didn t do great in these special elections, tim kahne, he s going to stay on as chairman of the democratic national committee. so i say to myself sometimes, what s wrong with this picture. the chairman of one party that does great. he s out. the chairman of the other party, that doesn t do so great, he stays in. can t explain it. we ll talk about that. a lot of discussion coming up on the sit ....
But a lot of the stuff that was talked about today really boils down to winning elections. and raising those dollars that are necessary to do that. and we ve done that. under some very difficult circumstances. we were able to pull together the resources to win. there you have it. michael steele just two hours ago defending his stewardship at the rnc. he s been under a lot of criticism for the stewardship of the committee. in the end, he did have some big wins. he s the head of the rnc when republicans did well in 2010. in 2009, winning back ted kennedy s seat in massachusetts. but the fact of the matter is, he hasn t been a good fundraiser. that s one of the chief responsibilities in the rnc. the republicans did great in the special elections, in the midterm elections. they won an enormous amount of seats, governor seats, house senate seats. so he s going to be kicked out presumably if he doesn t get the votes. the democrats suffer badly. their chairman, tim kahne, he s going to st ....
Is that the dnc chairman serves at the behest of the president of the united states, the person that s in power. of course, that s president obama. we ve seen tim kahne become a loyal soldier at the dnc. what we see at the rnc is that the 168 members who make up the committee, they ll make their own decision. mark preston, i m sure you ll watch that very, very closely. thank you. republicans can fight all they want over the party leadership. the real party lies elsewhere on capitol hill where gop leaders are a couple of days away from taking the reins of power in the house. let s bring in senior political analyst glor you borger. gloria, are gop leaders all on the same page now as far as the agenda is concerned? they are. there s one big mandate coming out of this election. and the mandate is to cut the budget. and as you saw dana bash reporting earlier, they re all in the same page about that. what they want to do is repeal health care reform. they think that will help the defic ....
the body of florida officials found dumped in the land fill. this is a mystery involving the veteran of three administrations. george clooney wants to turn the camera on a global hot spot in hopes of preventing election violence and genocide. ask about his new project far away from hollywood. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. first, this just coming in to the situation room, we re learning that republicans are about to take control of the house of representatives are moving forward right now right now with the attempt to repeal health care reform. this is set for confrontation with president obama before the new congress actually begins. dana bash is getting new information just coming in right now. what are you learning, dana? i m told, wolf, by house republican sources that they do plan to make moves to repeal the health care law almost immediately after taking the majority in the house. what i m told is there will be a critical procedural vote ....
deployed in support of the wars in both iraq and afghanistan. now, we have found out that the ship is heading out again to the war zone in just a couple of days. but is captain honors going to be on it? we re going to be talking about the story with two players here. pentagon correspondent barbara starr and retired navy captain aleck frazier. first i want you to watch one clip from one of these videos. this evening all of you bleeding hearts and you [ bleep ] boy, why don t you go ahead and hug yourselves for the next 20 minutes or so because there s a really good chance you re going to be offended tonight. [ bleep ]. [ bleep ]. i just [ bleep ] can t hit that. finally let s get to my favorite topic and something foreign to the gay kid over there, chicks in the shower. this is certainly the most popular video of any of the xo movie videos and also the one that landed me with the most complaints. barbara starr, i want to bring you in there from the pentagon. we ....